"M1 was brilliant. It will go down one of the most significant mobilisation in Australia's history. But one of the things that we can be a bit unhappy about is that the official trade union movement has brought relatively little to it, except in
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"In fact, the modern use of horses, while deliberately visually intimidating, involves mainly sideways movement of the horses to jostle the crowd in the direction required." — the Sydney Morning Herald's chief right-wing crank
BY TANIA JORQUERA
MELBOURNE Victoria University of Technology will play host to the
inaugural meeting of a newly formed refugee rights campaign. Refugee Action
Collective (West) will be based in Melbourne's western suburbs to meet
the
When I was a teenager, I got a gun. My parents didn't have them lying
around the house. I bought it for $25 on the street. I had it in my pants
at a movie theater when I saw one of my regular tormentors... [He] wasn't
in the mood to confront
BY SEAN HEALY
The socialist island nation of Cuba received praise from an unlikely source on May Day — from James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, one of the chief enforcers of corporate globalisation.
Wolfensohn told a news conference
BY MAX LANE
At least 50,000 workers, mostly members of the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI), joined protests in 19 cities in Sulawesi, Bali, Java and Sumatra. The largest mobilisations were in Medan and the East Java town of
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — At times, the scenes outside the stock exchange on 123 Eagle St on May 1 resembled one huge street party, with chanting, cheering, speech-making, dancing, and chalking up slogans on the pavement, all taking place in
BY FAROOQ TARIQ& RIZWAN ATTA
LAHORE — "If workers want to remember the martyrs of the 1886 uprising of Chicago, they should hold the meetings indoors", stated retired general Moeen Haider, federal interior minister, on April 28. "No-one,
BY ALLEN JENNINGS & MICHAEL KARADJIS
HANOI — Vietnam will stay firmly on a socialist path as it confronts the daunting challenges of economic reform and equitable development. This was the prevailing theme of the Ninth Congress of the Communist
"City workers and commuters were beseiged today as hundreds of anti-globalisation protesters attempted to blockade the Australian Stock Exchange, and took to the streets to march against what they claim to be 'corporate tyranny'.
"The so-called
"Today has been really inspiring, seeing everybody coming together to challenge the power of corporations, the very basis of capitalism. It's shown that what was launched at S11 was not just a one off demonstration but a new movement. Blockading
"Blockading the stock exchange today we have given renewed confidence to people suffering under globalisation, that it is not inevitable. And we can stop it. This renewed confidence will mean that the protests around CHOGM will draw in ever wider
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